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Onset may refer to:
Music
edit- Onset (audio), the beginning of a musical note or sound
- Interonset interval, a term in music
Phonetics and phonology
edit- Syllable onset, a term in phonetics and phonology
Etc.
edit- Onset, Massachusetts, village in the United States
- Onset Island (Massachusetts), a small island located at the western end of the Cape Cod Canal
- The Onset, Liverpool indie rock group formed by Mike Badger of the La's
- The Onset (album), a 2005 album by the band
- USS Onset (SP-1224), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
- "Onset", a 2019 song by Haiku Hands